Bureau of Justice Statistics
Excessive or reasonable force by police? Research on law enforcement and racial conflict
Many links to raw data and how to think about using statistics in reporting
List of Americans killed by police officers
Center for Policing Equity
See "Research" tab for reports on police interactions with civilians, broken down by race
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide. The database contains summaries of more than 180,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports; books; research reports; journal articles; and unpublished research. Links to several full text documents (1995 forward) are also available
The Counted: People Killed by Police in the U.S.
The Force Report
Database of all reported uses of force by police in New Jersey from 2012-2016, including the race and sex of arrestees.
Fatal Encounters
A database compiling facts about encounters between police and civilians that involve use of force. It is not comprehensive but is robust.
Every Three Seconds: Unlocking Police Data on Arrests
Trends in U.S. Corrections
Incarceration reports from The Sentencing Project
Racial Disparity reports from The Sentencing Project
Mapping George Floyd / Black Lives Matter protests
Every town or city I can find where a George Floyd / Black Lives Matter protest, action, or vigil has occurred since May 25, 2020
Dataset of incidents of police violence at 2020 protests
Use of Force Policies among 100 largest U.S. cities
List of Transfers of Surplus Military Equipment to Police Agencies
CPSR Data Resources About Race and Policing
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research provides datasets for analysis of historic trends in police use of force and community relations
Police Funding Database
Stanford Open Policing Project
On a typical day in the United States, police officers make more than 50,000 traffic stops. Our team is gathering, analyzing, and releasing records from millions of traffic stops by law enforcement agencies across the country.
For emerging markets like these, there are many reasons why the movement may have garnered more support in recent months.
For one thing, these countries are likely to have had the least experience with a movement like BLM because of different historical context vs. others where populations are highly diverse, and where issues like racism and xenophobia have been ongoing social problems.
Additionally, these countries are mainly non-white in their own demographic makeup, potentially heightening consumers’ empathy toward dealing with inequality in a global society that privileges the white experience.
The internet populations in these markets also skew younger, and young people are the most vocal about human rights issues across the board.
Unique to China, meanwhile, is the suggestion by some that the government is using BLM as a way to manipulate public sentiment against the U.S.
In other markets, many consumers said that tackling racism had always been important to them. The top five countries reporting this type of activism as an existing priority were Spain, Italy, Brazil, South Africa, and New Zealand.
Visit the website: https://blog.globalwebindex.com/chart-of-the-week/blm-and-brands-response/
BLM is a US grassroots activist movement which campaigns to affirm the value of black lives and to work to end police discriminatory treatment and violence against African Americans.
The movement began on social media in July 2013 with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter after a Florida jury acquitted George Zimmerman, a Hispanic neighborhood watch volunteer, of shooting dead Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old unarmed African-American student.
It achieved national and global impact in August 2014 after BLM supporters organized protests in Ferguson, Missouri, following the shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old African-American, by a white police officer.
Over the next two years, BLM organized more than 1,000 demonstrations across the USA in protest against further police killings of young African Americans. BLM also became politically active, challenging politicians in the 2016 US presidential election to state their position on BLM issues and running online campaigns against a number of state attorneys and prosecutors.
~ CREDO Black Lives Matter
A. Phillip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum
Celebrating African Americans in US Labor History
A voice: African American Voices in Congress
“Designed to capture and preserve the rich history of political and legislative contributions of blacks for future generations.”
African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citzenship
Online exhibit of full text and images from the Library of Congress collections, organized chronologically via chapters on slavery, Antebellum free Blacks, the Civil War and reconstruction, the "Booker T. Washington era," both World Wars, and the civil rights movement.
African American Registry
The largest African American History website in the world.
Black Past: Remembered & Reclaimed
BlackPast.org is dedicated to providing the inquisitive public with comprehensive, reliable, and accurate information concerning the history of African Americans in the United States and people of African ancestry in other regions of the world. It is the aim of the founders and sponsors to foster understanding through knowledge in order to generate constructive change in our society.
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938 (Library of Congress)
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration, later renamed Work Projects Administration (WPA). At the conclusion of the Slave Narrative project, a set of edited transcripts was assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves.
Civil Rights Digital Library
Online collection of multimedia primary resources documenting the Civil Rights movement. Includes texts, photographs, video, and sound files.
King Center
The official, living memorial dedicated to the advancement of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
NAACP
Information on the organization and key figures involved in the NAACP.
National Civil Rights Museum\
Located at the Lorraine Motel, the site of Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination, the museum chronicles key episodes of the American civil rights movement.
National Museum of African American History and Culture
In many ways, there are few things as powerful and as important as a people, as a nation that is steeped in its history. Often America is celebrated as a place that forgets. This museum seeks to help all Americans remember, and by remembering, this institution will stimulate a dialogue about race and help to foster a spirit of reconciliation and healing.
Black History Teaching Resources
Made available by Smithsonian Education.org
African American History Month
Hosted by the Library of Congress
Black History: National Archives
Multiple links available by archives.gov
#Charleston Syllabus
Here is a list of readings that educators can use to broach conversations in the classroom about the horrendous events that unfolded in Charleston, South Carolina on the evening of June 17, 2015. These readings provide valuable information about the history of racial violence in this country and contextualize the history of race relations in South Carolina and the United States in general. They also offer insights on race, racial identities, global white supremacy and black resistance. All readings are arranged by date of publication. This list is not meant to be exhaustive–you will find omissions.
How to Teach Kids About What's Happening in Ferguson
A crowdsourced syllabus about race, African American history, civil rights, and policing
Curriculum for White Americans to Educate Themselves on Race and Racism–from Ferguson to Charleston
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This Libguide began with the main categories and many of the resources from of the amazing Simmons University Libguide (referenced above), and has grown to include sources from our ASM colleagues, as well as colleges, universities, associations and NGOs from across the globe. It is a work in progress with news, resources and links to actionable information.